Yard Management System (YMS): 10 Best Vendors Compared for 2026

A yard management system (YMS) is software that tracks every truck, trailer and container between a site’s gate and its dock doors and tells yard drivers which move to make next. Gartner’s October 2025 Market Guide for Yard Management names 17 dedicated YMS vendors; ten yard systems are compared below, each re-checked on 8 October 2026.

Which one you need depends on where the time goes. If trucks queue because nobody booked the dock, dock appointment scheduling is the first fix. If trailers go missing, yard drivers wait for instructions or carriers bill detention, you need a yard system that tracks trailers and directs moves. The category map below sorts the tools by that job, and the cost section lists the three yard tools that publish prices.

How we checked (8 October 2026). We read Gartner’s Market Guide for Yard Management (G00785019, 27 October 2025) in the reprint C3 Solutions publishes, then opened every vendor’s own website and pricing page on 8 October 2026. Ownership changes come from the companies’ own press releases. Detention figures come from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and the US DOT Office of Inspector General, and driver working-time rules from EUR-Lex and legislation.gov.uk. We have not run these products side by side, so we do not score them. Review ratings carried over from our 2023 review are labelled as such.

What is yard management?

Yard management is a process that involves the coordination and tracking of the movement and storage of trailers, containers, and other assets within a physical yard or facility.

That includes the scheduling and sequencing of inbound and outbound trailers and other assets, managing their parking locations, monitoring their status, and optimizing their movement within the yard.

Yard management is often used in transportation, logistics, and manufacturing industries. For example, efficiently handling and storing trailers and other assets is critical to maintaining supply chain operations.

What is a yard management system?

A yard management system (YMS) is software that plans, directs and records what happens between a facility’s gate and its dock doors: checking trucks in and out, knowing where each trailer and container is parked, assigning yard drivers (also called jockeys, spotters or shunters) to move them, and reporting how long each one waited. Gartner defines it like this:

A yard management system (YMS) provides an overview of yard operations and supports the planning, direction, monitoring and control of activities. These include scheduling, moving, parking, inspecting and reassigning trucks, trailers and containers in the yard.

Gartner, Market Guide for Yard Management, 27 October 2025 (G00785019)

To count as a YMS in Gartner’s guide, a product must cover eight features:

• Yard visibility and tracking
• Yard asset and equipment management
• Yard management and task assignment
• Yard driver task assignment
• Dock and yard parking assignment constraints and capture
• Activity reporting
• Yard audit
• Check-in, validation and seal verification

Gartner adds that YMSs “are often sold as extended modules of a warehouse management system (WMS) or as an independent suite, and sometimes as part of a transport management system (TMS).” That is why the next question matters more than any vendor list.

Which kind of yard software do you need?

Match the software to the problem. A dock scheduler, a full YMS, a WMS module and a TMS overlap in name but solve different problems, and many lists of “yard management software” mix all four.

Your problem	Software type	What it does	Examples (checked 8 October 2026)
Trucks arrive unannounced and queue for a door	Dock appointment scheduling	Carriers book a time slot at a dock door; the site sees the day’s plan	DataDocks, Opendock, C3 Reservations, GoRamp Dock Scheduling
Trailers get lost, yard moves are slow, detention bills pile up	Yard management system (YMS)	Gate check-in, trailer location, yard driver tasks, dwell and detention reporting	C3 Yard, YardView, Peripass, Kaleris YMS, Yard Commander
You already run a WMS with a yard module	YMS module of a WMS	The same yard functions inside the warehouse system	SAP EWM, Manhattan Yard Management, Blue Yonder, Oracle
You already pay for a transport visibility platform	YMS from a visibility vendor	Yard status tied to in-transit arrival estimates	FourKites Dynamic Yard, project44
You plan and buy freight	Transportation management system (TMS)	Carrier sourcing, load planning, tendering, freight settlement	Alpega TMS, Rose Rocket
You run a rail to truck transload yard	Transload management	Railcar, payload and inventory tracking, customer billing	Transloads.co

Yard management challenges, and what they cost

• Lack of shipment visibility: If yard members have improper shipment visibility when trucks come for loading and unloading, it leads to inefficient use of the yard and its resources.
• Lack of trailer visibility: It is difficult to have enough visibility into trailer assets, which leads to inefficient use of trailers. It increases cost and reduces jockey efficiency.
• Process misalignment: The yard process should be updated dynamically and maintained automatically. Otherwise, stakeholders cannot have real-time visibility into the process, which leads to inefficient use of warehouse dock doors, labor, and equipment. That results in process misalignment and strained customer relationships.
• Yard jockey inefficiency: Improper insight into yard operations leads to inefficient use of jockey, increased violation, and wastage of jockey labor time. 

The bill for all four arrives as detention: time a truck is held at a facility beyond the free time agreed with the carrier. ATRI’s 2024 study follows “a standard industry definition of detention as any dwell time longer than 2 hours”, and 67 percent of carriers that charge for it start at the two-hour mark.

How common and how costly is truck detention?

These are the measured figures, each from the primary report. Detention here means time beyond the first two hours at a stop.

Finding	Figure	Source
Stops where the truck stayed more than 2 hours (any detention), US for-hire carriers, 2023	39.3%	ATRI, September 2024
Stops with more than two hours of detention (over four hours on site)	9.9%	ATRI, September 2024
Stops with detention, refrigerated carriers	56.2%	ATRI, September 2024
Productive driver hours lost to detention in 2023	135.9 million	ATRI, September 2024
Revenue lost by for-hire carriers in 2023	as much as $11.5 billion	ATRI, September 2024
Unreimbursed carrier expenses in 2023	$3.6 billion	ATRI, September 2024
Carriers that charge a detention fee in at least some instances	94.5%	ATRI, September 2024
Detention invoiced, and share of those invoices paid	75% invoiced, 55% of invoices paid	ATRI, September 2024
Median detention fee per hour, 2023	$50 truckload, $60 refrigerated, $80 specialized	ATRI, Table 8
Effect of 15 more minutes of average dwell time	+6.2% expected crash rate	US DOT OIG, ST2018019, 2018
Lost annual earnings of truckload drivers from detention	$1.1 to $1.3 billion ($1,281 to $1,534 per driver)	US DOT OIG, ST2018019, 2018

Even with these improvements, drivers experienced detention on 39.3 percent of stops in 2023. In 9.9 percent of stops […] drivers experienced more than two hours of detention.

Alex Leslie and Dan Murray, Costs and Consequences of Truck Driver Detention: A Comprehensive Analysis, American Transportation Research Institute, September 2024

The two percentages measure different things. At 39.3% of stops the truck ran past the two hours of free time at all; at 9.9% it ran past them by more than two further hours, so it was on site for over four hours.

What could detention cost one site? A worked example

Take a distribution center that receives 40 truckload deliveries a day, 250 days a year, and assume its stops behave like ATRI’s 2023 national averages. This is an illustration built from national data, not a forecast for any real site.

Step	Assumption or result
Stops a year	40 a day x 250 days = 10,000
Detention profile (ATRI 2023)	29.4% of stops with up to 2 hours, 5.0% with 2 to 4 hours, 4.9% with more than 4 hours
Hours per bin (our assumption)	1 hour, 3 hours and 4 hours (the last is a floor, so the total is conservative)
Detention hours a year	10,000 x (0.294 x 1 + 0.050 x 3 + 0.049 x 4) = 6,400 hours
Billable at the $50 median truckload fee	6,400 x $50 = $320,000
Actually paid, at ATRI’s rates (75% invoiced x 55% paid)	about $132,000
For comparison: first-year cost of Yard Commander at one site	$499 x 12 + $500 setup = $6,488

Detention is billed by carriers to the shipper or receiver, so it lands on the site that would buy a YMS. Not every hour is the yard’s fault: late carriers, short staffing and missing paperwork cause detention too, so no yard system removes all of it. The savings figures vendors publish are their own customers’ results, not independent measurements; Yard Management Solutions, for example, quotes Michelin as saying “ROI is six months for most of our sites”.

In the EU and UK, waiting at the dock is driver working time

In Europe a yard delay also eats into the driver’s legal working time. The EU Road Transport Working Time Directive counts as working time:

the times during which he cannot dispose freely of his time and is required to be at his workstation, ready to take up normal work, with certain tasks associated with being on duty, in particular during periods awaiting loading or unloading where their foreseeable duration is not known in advance

Directive 2002/15/EC, Article 3(a)

The Directive caps average weekly working time at 48 hours (Article 4). The UK kept the same wording in regulation 2 of the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005. Waiting whose length is known in advance falls outside that clause.

In the US, the most recent federal step came on 6 October 2026, when the FMCSA asked for public comment on a pilot letting drivers pause their 14-hour driving window, citing “unreasonably long periods of detention time when waiting to load or unload”. Comments close on 7 December 2026.

Common features of YMS

Beyond the eight core features above, these are the capabilities buyers compare most often.

Real-time visibility

Yard management software provides real-time visibility into inventory status, asset location, and overall yard operations. That helps the organization to keep tabs on the movements of goods and trucks, increase logistical efficiency, and reduce errors or delays.

Yard planning and scheduling

Yard management software helps to allocate space and manage the storage and movement of assets by employing scheduling and planning capabilities. This feature optimizes asset placement and space utilization, streamlines loading and unloading processes, and ensures smooth yard operations.

Reporting and analytics

This feature helps to generate detailed reports on assets, inventory, and yard utilization metrics. Reporting and analytical capabilities enhance inventory management, providing insights and intelligence to make informed decisions.

Integration and data exchange

Yard management software is designed to support integration with other systems, such as Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), to expand visibility and improve collaboration across departments.

Mobile application

Enables yard managers, drivers, and other operational teams to view inventory in real-time, manage pickup schedules, and streamline the loading and unloading process.

Gate check-in, kiosks and license plate recognition

Self-service kiosks, QR codes or smartphone pre-check-in let visiting drivers register without queuing at an office window, and cameras with automated number plate recognition (ANPR) log trucks in and out. Gartner lists both among the common YMS features, alongside seal verification at the gate.

Dwell time and detention reporting

A YMS time-stamps arrival, check-in, door assignment and departure for every trailer, which gives you the dwell time records needed to dispute a detention invoice or to bill a carrier that arrived late. Gartner lists “dwell time and carrier performance reporting” as a common feature.

How much does a yard management system cost?

Eight of the ten systems compared here quote only after a demo. On 8 October 2026 three yard tools published a price: Yard Commander at $499 a month per site on annual prepayment plus a $500 setup fee, Peripass Quickstart from €1,299 a month per site billed annually, and Transloads.co, built for rail transload yards, at $30 per payload or $900 a month.

Product	Price	Billing unit and term	What is included	First year, one site
Yard Commander	$499 a month	Per site, annual prepayment, plus $500 one-time setup	Core YMS; carrier appointments, dock scheduling, SSO, API and SMS are optional modules with no published price	$6,488
Peripass Quickstart	From €1,299 a month	Per site, billed annually	4 logistics flows, 75 trucks a day; Security, Efficiency and Throughput upgrades from €1,799	€15,588
Transloads.co pay-per-payload	$30 per payload	Per payload, minimum $30 a month, no long-term contract	Transload yard software, 14-day free trial, unlimited users	Depends on volume
Transloads.co pay-per-month	$900 a month	Flat, monthly	Same; cheaper than pay-per-payload above 30 payloads a month	$10,800
SAP Yard Logistics	Price upon request	Blocks of 5,000 documents a year (each check-in and check-out posting per transportation unit), minimum 3 blocks, 3 to 60 month contracts	Private cloud edition on SAP S/4HANA	Not published

Where vendors do not publish prices, they still disclose the unit they charge by. Gartner’s guide records YardView selling a monthly subscription per site with unlimited users and transactions, Exotrac pricing by site and input users with no charge for casual users such as visiting drivers, Terminal Industries using a tiered per-site subscription, and Leoquantum a monthly subscription that includes transaction fees. Its advice on comparing quotes:

Users should review YMS proposals in detail. Pricing can vary widely, ranging from perpetual and subscription licenses based on sites and/or users/device users, upfront hardware costs or hardware usage fees to transactional fees based on actual or average transport unit movements.

Gartner, Market Guide for Yard Management, 27 October 2025 (G00785019)

How to choose a yard management system: six questions

Ask these before any demo; each answer can be confirmed in writing.

• Do you need a YMS or only dock scheduling? If the yard is small and the pain is queuing for doors, a dock scheduler with basic yard tracking (DataDocks, Opendock) may be enough.
• Does your WMS or TMS already include yard management? Manhattan says “Existing and new Warehouse Management users can add Yard Management at no cost”, while its TMS users pay extra. SAP EWM includes yard bins and checkpoints, Blue Yonder sells yard management as a capability of its WMS, and Oracle Transportation Management has dock and yard managers.
• What is the pricing unit? Per site (Yard Commander, Peripass, YardView, Terminal Industries), per site and user (Exotrac), per document (SAP: each check-in and check-out posting) or per payload (Transloads.co). Model your own volumes against each.
• What hardware is needed, and who owns it? Kaleris sells hardware as a service, Peripass offers a rental kiosk, and DataDocks says you need no hardware or GPS tags to start.
• How fast can it go live? Vendors’ own claims to Gartner range from a basic Terminal Industries setup in as little as 5 days, through Peripass Quickstart within a month and YardView within four weeks, to six weeks for Yard Management Solutions.
• Can visiting drivers use it without installing anything? C3 runs as a progressive web app with no app store download, and Peripass offers smartphone pre-check-in with automatic translation of driver messages.

The 10 yard management systems at a glance

The first five are ordered by the number of sites each vendor reported to Gartner. The next three come with a platform you may already use (SAP, Opendock, GoRamp’s dock scheduling), and the last two suit single sites. This is a buyer’s map, not a score.

#	System (vendor)	Type	Footprint reported to Gartner, Oct 2025	Published price, 8 October 2026	Best for
1	C3 Yard (C3 Solutions)	Standalone YMS plus dock scheduling	Almost 2,000 sites	None	Multi-site retail, grocery and parcel networks
2	YardView (Vector)	Standalone YMS	More than 1,000 sites	None (monthly per-site subscription, unlimited users)	Fast go-live at many sites
3	Peripass	Standalone YMS	About 200 customers, 500 sites	From €1,299 a month per site, billed annually	European manufacturing sites with many visiting drivers
4	FourKites Dynamic Yard	YMS from a visibility platform	About 80 customers, 450 sites	None	Shippers already tracking loads in FourKites
5	Kaleris YMS	Standalone YMS with location hardware	Over 90 customers, almost 400 sites	None	Large yards that need sensor-based trailer location
6	SAP Yard Logistics	ERP add-on YMS	More than 180 customers in 39 countries	Price upon request; 30-day free trial	SAP S/4HANA, EWM and TM users
7	Opendock (Loadsmart)	Dock scheduling, YMS and camera gate	Over 4,000 warehouses on Opendock scheduling	None	Sites already booking docks in Opendock
8	GoRamp	Dock scheduling plus YMS	“Hundreds of sites”	None	Shippers onboarding many small carriers
9	Yard Commander (YMX Logistics)	Standalone YMS	YMX: about 60 customers, 200 sites	$499 a month per site, annual prepayment, $500 setup	A single site that wants a published price
10	DataDocks	Dock scheduling with a yard map	Not in Gartner’s list	None	Small yards where dock appointments are the main problem

1. C3 Yard (C3 Solutions)

C3 Yard is the yard management system of C3 Solutions, a Montreal software company. C3 told Gartner its solutions run at “almost 2,000 sites”; one of C3’s own landing pages gives a lower figure, 1,500 sites. C3 Yard can be bought alone or with C3 Reservations for dock appointment scheduling and C3 Hive for driver check-in and arrival estimates. It runs as a progressive web app, so drivers and jockeys use it in a browser without an app store download, and Gartner notes C3 secured ISO 27001 certification in 2023 and partners with EAIGLE for camera-based check-in. C3 publishes no prices; Gartner describes a single-tenant cloud platform sold by subscription.

Features

• Real-time visibility on yard assets
• Business rule engine
• Gate control
• Inbound planning tools
• Dock management
• Mobile view
• Exception alerts
• Trailer workshop management
• Seal management

Some screenshots of C3 Yard

Likes

• It increases gate throughput
• It decreases dock congestion
• It enhances door utilization
• It reduces detention costs

Other details

Deployment	Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Supported devices	Mobile – Android, Mobile – iPhone, Mobile – iPad
Support	24/7 (Live Rep)
Training	In-person, Live Online, Documentation
Customer reviews (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	Capterra: 4.3 out of 5 (3+ reviews)

2. YardView (part of Vector since January 2026)

YardView is a cloud yard management system that has been sold since 1998 and, according to Gartner, runs at more than 1,000 sites and handles over 110,000 appointments a month. On 22 January 2026 Vector, a San Francisco logistics workflow company that also sells electronic bills of lading, driver check-in and its own Vector Connected Yard, announced it had acquired YardView. yardview.com still trades under its own name. Gartner describes YardView’s pricing as a monthly subscription per site with unlimited users and transactions, and says projects can go live within four weeks. No price is published.

Features

• Tracking of asset location, trailer contents, and trailer movements
• Third-party integration
• Easy user interface

Likes

• It provides drag-and-drop trailers options.
• The software is easy to understand and use.

Dislikes

• Lack of graphical representation.

Other details

Deployment	Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Supported devices	Desktop – Mac, Desktop – Windows, Desktop – Linux, Desktop – Chromebook, Mobile – Android, Mobile – iPhone, Mobile – iPad
Support	Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live Rep), Chat
Training	In-person, Live Online, Webinars, Documentation, Videos
Customer reviews (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	G2: 4.3 out of 5 (2+ reviews) Capterra: 4.9 out of 5 (25+ reviews)

Supported industries

• 3PL
• Automotive
• Cold storage
• Food manufacturing
• Grocery
• Manufacturing
• Paper & packing
• Retail
• Transportation & logistics

3. Peripass

Peripass is a European yard management specialist with about 200 customers across 500 sites, according to Gartner, most of its growth coming from manufacturing sites. It runs as a multitenant cloud service on Microsoft Azure and is built around visiting drivers: self-registration at a kiosk or by smartphone, automatic translation of every driver message, ID checks supporting the TAPA, AEO and ISPS security standards, and a virtual yard for dispatching shunter drivers. Gartner notes that Peripass does not offer dock appointment scheduling itself; it partners with slot booking vendors such as Transporeon, Alpega and Shiptify.

Pricing

Peripass publishes its entry price: Quickstart costs from €1,299 per month per site, billed annually, and includes 4 logistics flows and 75 trucks a day. Security, Efficiency and Throughput upgrades each start from €1,799 “based on your needs”. Gartner says the Quickstart offer gets a site running with basic yard capabilities within a month, and Peripass also rents a plug and play kiosk.

Best for

European sites with many visiting drivers, mixed languages and site security rules.

4. FourKites Dynamic Yard

FourKites, a real-time transportation visibility company, sells yard management under its YardWorks umbrella in three versions: AutoGate for smaller, less complex sites; Dynamic Yard, which adds parking-spot-level trailer visibility and digitized spotter workflows; and Dynamic Yard Advanced, which adds RFID trailer monitoring and more reporting. The yard products came from FourKites’ acquisition of TrackX’s yard portfolio in March 2020, and Zebra resells the offering. Gartner reports about 80 customers at 450 sites, mostly in North America. FourKites’ site says Dynamic Yard “tracks every trailer position in real time via GPS and RFID”. No price is published.

Best for

Shippers already tracking loads in FourKites that want in-transit arrival estimates to drive the yard and dock plan.

5. Kaleris YMS

Kaleris YMS is the truck and trailer yard system that came to Kaleris from PINC Solutions: Kaleris says it was formed from “PINC Solutions, ShipXpress, and RailCarRx, which are now Kaleris YMS, TMS, and MRO”. It is built around real-time location: Gartner describes an IoT sensor network combining GPS, RFID, optical and cellular technology, sold as SaaS with hardware as a service, and reports over 90 YMS customers across almost 400 sites, mostly in North America. Our 2023 review listed the product as Digital Yard, a name Kaleris used in 2022 and no longer uses on its site. For rail yards Kaleris sells a separate product, Yard & Transload Management. No price is published.

Features

• Comprehensive network visibility
• Real-time yard capacity and availability data
• Yard network performance metrics 
• Accessorial charge prevention 
• Good customer service 
• Carrier contract management 

Likes 

• It helps to enhance the yard system and track and trace trailers.
• It shows the history of the trailer and the timeline for the yard.

Dislikes

• Poor compatibility with other software.
• It will not show inbound and outbound trailers.

Supported industries

• Automotive
• Consumer goods
• Energy, chemicals mining
• Food and beverages
• Manufacturing
• Retail

Other details

Deployment	Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Support	Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live Rep), Chat Mobile – iPhone, Mobile – iPad
Training	In-Person, Live Online, Webinars, Documentation, Videos
Customer reviews (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	Capterra: 4.8 out of 5 (16 reviews)

6. SAP Yard Logistics

SAP Yard Logistics is SAP’s dedicated yard system, sold as an add-on to SAP S/4HANA. The current release is SAP Yard Logistics 2024 SP02 for SAP S/4HANA, based on S/4HANA 2023, with documentation published in October 2026. Gartner reports more than 180 customers in 39 countries, with much of the growth from automotive, and says it is “best deployed within the SAP ecosystem”, with integration to SAP EWM, SAP Transportation Management and Plant Maintenance.

Pricing and free trial. SAP lists SAP Yard Logistics for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition at “Price upon request”, counted in blocks of 5,000 documents a year, where every check-in and check-out posting per transportation unit is one document, with a minimum of 3 blocks and contracts of 3 to 60 months. SAP also offers a 30-day free trial of SAP Yard Logistics with preconfigured scenarios.

Do you need it, or is EWM enough? SAP EWM includes Yard Management: a yard is set up as a storage type with parking spaces, checkpoints and doors as yard bins, and yard moves are warehouse tasks. Gartner’s view is that SAP Yard Logistics “offers more extensive yard management and provides additional industry-specific capabilities.” The old ECC Yard Management (WM-YM) is a compatibility pack item in S/4HANA with expiring use rights; see the FAQ below.

Features

• Order and appointment planning
• Yard execution and processing
• Integration with supply chain management
• Monitoring of the supply chain
• On-premise or single-tenant cloud deployment (SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition)
• Real-time visibility into the order status

Some screenshots of SAP yard logistics

Likes

• The reporting feature is good.
• It tracks the materials in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
• The software is easily customizable.

Dislikes

• Its training capability is poor.
• It alerts the mistake but does not suggest how to correct it.
• The user interface is not so good.
• It easily allows the user to make mistakes, and the program is older than others.

7. Opendock (Loadsmart)

Opendock began as dock scheduling software that lets carriers book their own warehouse appointments. Loadsmart, a freight technology company, announced it had acquired Opendock on 5 November 2021, and on 28 September 2023 bought Navtrac, a computer vision gate startup whose product is now Opendock SmartGate. Opendock now sells dock scheduling, driver check-in, a yard management system and SmartGate on one platform, claims more than 4,000 warehouses, and appears in Gartner’s guide as Loadsmart (Navtrac). No price is published; the site offers a demo.

Features

• One-stop shop for shippers
• Online appointment scheduling
• Third-party integration
• Real-time dock management data

Some screenshots of Opendock

Likes

• Appointment visibility is good.
• It provides good customer service.
• Multiple parties can get information about shipment and pickup.

Dislikes

• Some regular features are unavailable in the Nova version.
• The fall-off appointments option is not there.
• Rescheduling the canceled appointments option is not there.
• The vendors’ and couriers’ details provided by the software could be improved.
• Appointments scheduled by one person are not viewable by others in the same facility.

Other details

Supported languages	English
Customer reviews (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	G2: 4.5 out of 5 (49+reviews)

8. GoRamp

GoRamp, founded in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2017, began with carrier appointments, dock scheduling and freight management and launched GoRamp YMS in December 2023. It now describes itself as “a yard and dock orchestration platform”. Gartner notes its focus on onboarding carriers and smaller businesses for which EDI connections may be expensive, and its detention fee, dwell time and yard jockey performance reporting. GoRamp publishes no prices; quotes follow a demo.

Features

• Time slot booking for inbound and outbound trucks
• Changes management
• Documentation
• Dock scheduling
• KPI dashboards

Screenshot of GoRamp

Likes

• It provides a clear overview of the docks.
• User interaction is easy and clear.

Dislikes

• The drag-and-drop option is not there to upload files.
• The hanging problem comes very often.

Other details

Deployment	Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Supported devices	Mac, Windows, Linux, Chromebook, On-Premise – Windows, On-Premise – Linux
Support	Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live Rep), Chat
Training	In-person, Live Online, Webinars, Documentation, Videos
Language supported	English, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
Customer ratings (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	G2: 4.4 out of 5 (17+reviews), Capterra: 4.7 out of 5 (6+reviews)

9. Yard Commander (YMX Logistics)

Yard Commander is a yard management system founded in 2011 and headquartered in Canada, according to Gartner. YMX Logistics, a US yard operations company based in Henderson, Nevada, announced its acquisition of Yard Commander on 21 January 2025. YMX also runs yards for its customers (spotting, shuttling, gate management and trailer rental), so it can supply the software alone or with the people to operate it. Gartner reports about 60 YMS customers at 200 sites for YMX, mostly in North America.

Pricing

Yard Commander publishes its price: $499 a month per site, based on annual prepayment, plus a one-time $500 setup fee, so the first year costs $6,488 per site. Carrier appointments, dock scheduling, single sign-on, API and webhooks, and SMS carrier messaging are optional modules with no published price.

Best for

A single site that wants a simple system and a price it can budget without a sales cycle, or a shipper that also wants yard staff supplied.

10. DataDocks

DataDocks is dock appointment scheduling software, sold since 2013 by Northfire Inc., that has added a lighter form of yard management: a digital yard map where staff drag trailers into position, and electronic jockey orders. DataDocks says it builds yard management “directly into the dock scheduling workflow” and that you need no hardware or GPS tags to begin. Carriers book their own appointments, the part of the supply chain DataDocks was built for. It is not among the 17 vendors in Gartner’s guide, so treat it as the right pick when dock appointments are the main problem and the yard is small. It publishes no prices: “Talk to us for a quote based on your facility and requirements.”

Features

• Appointment dates tracking
• Customer support
• Web and mobile access
• Multiple location views
• Logistics team performance tracking
• Recurring appointment creation
• Email notifications
• Demurrage costs tracking
• PO tracking

Likes

• It offers customer-friendly logistics solutions.
• It saves costs and workforce wastage.
• It provides good customer service.

Dislikes

• You cannot use previous versions.

Who are the leading yard management system vendors?

Gartner’s October 2025 guide names 17 representative vendors that “routinely sell and implement YMS solutions independently of their other offerings in significant numbers”. The table repeats Gartner’s product names and the footprint each vendor reported; it is not exhaustive, and vendors not listed may still sell a YMS.

Vendor	Yard products (Gartner, Oct 2025)	Gartner category	Footprint reported
C3 Solutions	C3 Yard, C3 Reservations, C3 Hive	Specialized YMS suite	almost 2,000 sites
Exotrac	YardTrac Pro, YardTrac Lite	Specialized YMS suite	over 110 sites, over 60 customers
FourKites	AutoGate, Dynamic Yard, Dynamic Yard Advanced, YardWorks, AutoBooker	Real-time transportation visibility platform	about 80 customers, 450 sites (Dynamic Yard)
GoRamp	GoRamp YMS, Dock Scheduling and Time Slot Management	Specialized YMS suite	“hundreds of sites” (no count given)
Kaleris	Kaleris YMS, EVP	Specialized YMS suite	over 90 YMS customers, almost 400 sites
Leoquantum	myleo / dsc	Specialized YMS suite	about 50 customers, over 150 sites in 10 European countries
Loadsmart (Navtrac)	Opendock, Opendock YMS, SmartGate	Specialized YMS suite	over 4,000 warehouses on Opendock scheduling
Peripass	Quickstart, Basic, Plus, Pro and Compliance bundles	Specialized YMS suite	about 200 customers, 500 sites
ProAct International	Yard Management for Finished Vehicles, Multi-Modal/Multi-Site, Cross Dock	Supply chain management suite	not stated
project44	Appointment Management, Yard Visibility, Yard Management, Yard Automation	Real-time transportation visibility platform	“a smaller number of YMS customers” within 800+ overall
SAP	SAP Yard Logistics	Application mega vendor	more than 180 customers in 39 countries
Terminal Industries	Terminal YOS: SmartYard YMS	Specialized YMS suite	“a modest number of customers”, all in North America
Vector	Vector Connected Yard	Specialized YMS suite	around 30 enterprise customers
vTradEx	vTradEx YMS	Supply chain management suite	more than 30 customers, over 150 sites
Yard Management Solutions	YMS Version 2	Specialized YMS suite	not stated
YardView	YardView YMS	Specialized YMS suite	more than 1,000 sites
YMX Logistics	YMX OS: YMX Yard Management System, Yard Commander	Specialized YMS suite and yard services	about 60 YMS customers, 200 sites

Two changes matter for buyers. After the guide was published, Vector, itself on the list, bought YardView in January 2026. And the guide records that in October 2025 Royal 4 Systems launched Titan, a standalone YMS written in SAP’s ABAP language for SAP ECC and S/4HANA customers. Gartner also notes that WMS vendors whose yard offerings appeared in earlier editions (Blue Yonder, Consafe Logistics, Infios (formerly Körber), Manhattan Associates, NCR, Oracle, Reply and Royal 4 Systems) were left out because the guide now focuses on vendors selling YMS on its own, “not a reflection on the capabilities” of their products. Descartes also sells Descartes Yard Management alongside its dock appointment scheduling.

Tools often listed as yard management software that do a different job

Many YMS lists, including the 2023 version of this page, mix in software built for another problem. These three are useful products but not trailer yard systems, so we moved them out of the ten. If a TMS is what you need, see our transportation management software comparison.

Product	What it is	What it does	When it fits
Transloads.co	Transload management	Tracks railcars, payloads and inventory at rail to truck transload yards and bills the yard’s customers	You run a transload or reload facility
Alpega TMS	Transportation management system	Freight sourcing, load planning, carrier assignment, dock slot booking (Alpega Smart Booking) and proof of delivery	You plan and buy freight
Rose Rocket	TMS for carriers and freight brokers	Orders, dispatch, tracking and invoicing	You run trucks or broker freight

Transloads.co (for rail transload yards)

Transloads.co is software for transload (reload) yards, where freight moves between railcars and trucks; it calls itself an “all-in-one YMS / WMS” for that work and lists cargo from “lumber, steel, dimensional cargo” to “dry bulk, liquid bulk, or ISO containers”. It tracks inbound and outbound shipments, inventory and demurrage, invoices the yard’s customers and gives field workers a mobile interface. It is a yard system for that job, not for the trailer yard of a warehouse or plant.

Features

• Inbound shipments
• Outbound shipments
• Account management
• Inventory tracking
• Demurrage management
• Invoicing
• Reporting and analytics

Screenshot of Transloads.co

The screenshot below is from our 2023 review, when the plans were $29.95 per payload (minimum $29.95, maximum $898.50 a month) and $799.95 a month.

Likes

• It provides good customer service and product support.
• It offers a good desktop and mobile management system.
• The user interface is good.

Dislikes

• The system is difficult for inexperienced employees.

Other details

Deployment	Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Supported devices	Desktop – Mac, Desktop – Windows, Desktop – Linux, Desktop – Chromebook
Support	Email/Help Desk, Phone Support
Training	In-Person, Live Online, Webinars, Documentation
Supported languages	English
Customer ratings (from our 2023 review, not re-checked)	G2: 4.7 out of 5 (3+ reviews) Capterra: 4.5 out of 5 (4+ reviews)

Alpega TMS (a transport management system)

Alpega TMS is a cloud transportation management system that Alpega describes as a “solution for load planning, carrier assignment, dock scheduling and proof of delivery”. Its dock tool, Alpega Smart Booking, is time slot management software sold standalone or within the TMS, and Peripass partners with Alpega for slot booking. We found no yard management product on Alpega’s site, which is why it moved out of the ten.

Features

• Sourcing and procurement
• Real-time visibility
• Transport planning
• Transport order management
• Transport cost management
• Reporting and Analytics

Likes

• It provides well-organized shipping order details.
• It offers good customer support.
• System updates will take place on weekends.

Dislikes

• It offers a SaaS platform with minimum customization options.
• It needs to provide updated user interface displays from a design standpoint.

Rose Rocket (a TMS for carriers and brokers)

Rose Rocket is a transportation management system for carriers and freight brokers, now marketed as an “AI-Native Transportation Platform for Freight & Trucking”; TMS.ai is one of its product brands. It handles orders, dispatch, tracking and invoicing, with customer portals, EDI and APIs for order entry. Its Full Service Platform starts at $2,080 a month (the page does not state the currency), and Enterprise is custom priced. It is not a yard management system.

Features

• Real-time tracking and tracing of drivers
• Enhanced connectivity
• Customer portal
• Driver mobile app
• Driver scheduling
• Invoicing and billing
• Partner logins

Screenshot of Rose Rocket

Likes

• The software is easy to set up.
• Order management and drivers app is comprehensive.

Dislikes

• Customer support is poor.
• Tracking both chassis and container numbers within a shipment is not possible.
• Advanced features like carrier rate database are unavailable.

FAQs

Conclusion

Start with the problem, not the vendor list. If trucks queue for doors, dock appointment scheduling may be enough. If trailers go missing, yard drivers wait for instructions or carriers bill detention, you need a yard management system, and the first question is whether your WMS or TMS already includes one: Manhattan adds Yard Management at no cost for its Warehouse Management users, and SAP customers can use EWM yard functions or SAP Yard Logistics, which has a 30-day free trial.

For a standalone system, the size of your network sets the shortlist. C3 Yard, YardView, FourKites and Kaleris each report hundreds to thousands of sites, Peripass’s customers are mostly in Europe, and Yard Commander publishes a price a single site can budget against. Ask every vendor for the pricing unit (site, user, document or move), the hardware you must buy or rent, and the go-live time, in writing.

Primary sources checked 8 October 2026

• Gartner, Market Guide for Yard Management, 27 October 2025 (reprint)
• ATRI, Costs and Consequences of Truck Driver Detention, September 2024
• US DOT Office of Inspector General, report ST2018019, 31 January 2018
• Federal Register 2026-20476, FMCSA 14-hour pause pilot, 6 October 2026
• Directive 2002/15/EC (EUR-Lex)
• Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005, regulation 2
• SAP Yard Logistics product and pricing page
• SAP Yard Logistics free trial
• SAP Yard Logistics 2024 SP02 product assistance
• SAP EWM Yard Management (SAP Help)
• SAP, compatibility packs use rights extension, 4 February 2026
• SAP, compatibility packs way forward, 7 May 2024
• Manhattan Yard Management
• Peripass pricing
• Yard Commander pricing
• Transloads.co pricing
• Vector acquires YardView, 22 January 2026
• YMX Logistics acquires Yard Commander, 21 January 2025
• Loadsmart acquires Opendock, 5 November 2021
• Kaleris company history

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